Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (United Kingdom)
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs is a mid-level ministerial position in Her Majesty's Government, the Minister serves as the deputy to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs | |
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office | |
Status | Incumbent |
Reports to | Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs |
Nominator | Secretary of State |
Appointer | The Prime Minister approved and sworn in by the Queen-in-Council |
Term length | No fixed term |
Formation | 1943 |
First holder | Richard Law |
Ministers of State for Foreign Affairs 1943–1968
Name | Portrait | Term of office | Political party | P.M. | F.Sec. | |||
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Richard Law | ![]() |
25 September 1943 | 25 May 1945 | Conservative | Churchill | Eden | ||
William Mabane | ![]() |
25 May 1945 | 26 July 1945 | National Liberal | ||||
Philip Noel-Baker | ![]() |
3 August 1945 | 4 October 1946 | Labour | Attlee | Bevin | ||
Hector McNeil | ![]() |
4 October 1946 | 28 February 1950 | |||||
Kenneth Younger | ![]() |
28 February 1950 | 26 October 1951 | |||||
Morrison | ||||||||
Selwyn Lloyd | ![]() |
30 October 1951 | 18 October 1954 | Conservative | Churchill | Eden | ||
The Marquess of Reading | ![]() |
11 November 1953 | 9 January 1957 | Churchill (1953–55) Eden (1955–57) |
Eden (1953–55) Macmillan (1955) Lloyd (1955–59) | |||
Anthony Nutting | ![]() |
18 October 1954 | 3 November 1956 | |||||
Allan Noble | ![]() |
9 November 1956 | 16 January 1959 | Eden | Lloyd | |||
David Ormsby-Gore | ![]() |
16 January 1957 | 27 June 1961 | Macmillan | ||||
John Profumo | ![]() |
16 January 1959 | 27 July 1960 | |||||
Joseph Godber | ![]() |
27 June 1961 | 27 June 1963 | Douglas-Home | ||||
The Earl of Dundee | ![]() |
9 October 1961 | 16 October 1964 | |||||
Douglas-Home | Butler | |||||||
Peter Thomas | ![]() |
27 June 1963 | 16 October 1964 | |||||
George Thomson | ![]() |
16 October 1964 | 31 March 1966 | Labour | Wilson | Gordon Walker (1964–65) Stewart (1965–66) Brown (1965–68) | ||
The Lord Caradon | ![]() |
16 October 1964 | 17 October 1968 | |||||
Walter Padley | ![]() |
19 October 1964 | 7 January 1967 | |||||
The Lord Chalfont | ![]() |
23 October 1964 | 17 October 1968 | |||||
Eirene White | ![]() |
31 March 1966 | 7 January 1967 | Brown (1966–68) Stewart (1968) | ||||
George Thomson | ![]() |
7 January 1967 | 29 August 1967 | |||||
Fred Mulley | ![]() |
7 January 1967 | 17 October 1968 | |||||
Goronwy Roberts | ![]() |
29 August 1967 | 17 October 1968 |
Ministers of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 1968–
Name | Portrait | Term of office | Political party | P.M. | F.Sec. | |||
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The Lord Caradon | ![]() |
17 October 1968 | 19 June 1970 | Labour | Wilson | Stewart | ||
The Lord Chalfont | ![]() |
17 October 1968 | 19 June 1970 | |||||
Fred Mulley | ![]() |
17 October 1968 | 13 October 1969 | |||||
Goronwy Roberts | ![]() |
17 October 1968 | 13 October 1969 | |||||
The Lord Shepherd | ![]() |
17 October 1968 | 19 June 1970 | |||||
Joseph Godber | ![]() |
19 June 1970 | 9 April 1972 | Conservative | Heath | Douglas-Home | ||
The Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie | ![]() |
9 April 1972 | 4 March 1974 | |||||
Julian Amery | ![]() |
9 April 1972 | 4 March 1974 | |||||
Lord Balniel | ![]() |
9 April 1972 | 4 March 1974 | |||||
David Ennals | ![]() |
7 March 1974 | 10 September 1976 | Labour | Wilson | Callaghan | ||
Roy Hattersley | ![]() |
7 March 1974 | 10 September 1976 | |||||
The Lord Goronwy-Roberts | ![]() |
4 December 1975 | 4 May 1979 | |||||
Callaghan | ||||||||
Crosland (1976–77) Owen (1977–79) | ||||||||
Ted Rowlands | ![]() |
10 September 1976 | 4 May 1979 | |||||
David Owen | ![]() |
10 September 1976 | 21 February 1977 | Crosland | ||||
Frank Judd | ![]() |
21 February 1977 | 4 May 1979 | Owen | ||||
Peter Blaker | ![]() |
4 May 1979 | 14 September 1981 | Conservative | Thatcher | The Lord Carrington | ||
Nicholas Ridley | ![]() |
4 May 1979 | 14 September 1981 | |||||
Richard Luce | ![]() |
14 September 1981 | 5 April 1982 | |||||
Cranley Onslow | ![]() |
5 April 1982 | 13 June 1983 | Pym | ||||
The Lord Belstead | ![]() |
5 April 1982 | 13 June 1983 | |||||
Richard Luce | ![]() |
13 June 1983 | 2 September 1985 | Howe | ||||
The Baroness Young | ![]() |
13 June 1983 | 13 June 1987 | |||||
Tim Renton | ![]() |
2 September 1985 | 13 June 1987 | |||||
David Mellor | ![]() |
13 June 1987 | 25 July 1988 | |||||
The Lord Glenarthur | ![]() |
13 June 1987 | 24 July 1989 | |||||
William Waldegrave | ![]() |
26 July 1988 | 2 November 1990 | |||||
Major (1989) Hurd (1989–90) | ||||||||
The Lord Brabazon of Tara | ![]() |
24 July 1989 | 14 July 1990 | |||||
The Earl of Caithness | ![]() |
14 July 1990 | 14 April 1992 | Hurd | ||||
Major | ||||||||
Douglas Hogg | ![]() |
2 November 1990 | 5 July 1995 | |||||
Alastair Goodlad | ![]() |
15 April 1992 | 5 July 1995 | |||||
Jeremy Hanley | ![]() |
5 July 1995 | 5 May 1997 | Rifkind | ||||
Nicholas Bonsor | ![]() |
5 July 1995 | 5 May 1997 | |||||
Tony Lloyd | ![]() |
5 May 1997 | 28 July 1999 | Labour | Blair | Cook | ||
John Battle | ![]() |
28 July 1999 | 11 June 2001 | |||||
The Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean Minister of State for the Middle East |
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11 June 2001 | 5 May 2005 | Straw | ||||
Kim Howells | ![]() |
11 May 2005 | 6 October 2008 | |||||
Beckett | ||||||||
Brown | Miliband | |||||||
Bill Rammell | ![]() |
6 October 2008 | 8 June 2009 | |||||
Ivan Lewis | ![]() |
8 June 2009 | 11 May 2010 | |||||
The Lord Howell of Guildford Minister of State for International Energy Strategy |
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13 May 2010 | 4 September 2012 | Conservative | Cameron | Hague | ||
Hugo Swire | ![]() |
4 September 2012 | 15 July 2016 | |||||
Hammond | ||||||||
Alan Duncan Minister of State for Europe and the Americas |
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15 July 2016 | 22 July 2019 | May | Johnson | |||
Hunt | ||||||||
Christopher Pincher Minister of State for Europe and the Americas |
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25 July 2019 | 13 February 2020 | Johnson | Raab | |||
The Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park Minister of State for Pacific and the Environment |
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13 February 2020 | Incumbent |
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